Holder for lamps and parcels for bicycles



No. 6l2,646. Patented Oct. l8, I898. W. HOWELL, L. E. CARRIER &. J.MAcLAGAN. HOLDER FOB LAMPS AND PARCELS FOR BICYGLES.

(Application filed June 3, 1898.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-8heet l.

No. 612,646. Patented Oct. l8, I898. W. HOWELL, L. E. CARRIER &. J.MAOLAGAN. HOLDER FUR LAMPS AND PARCELS FUR BIGYCLES.

(Application filed June 8, 1898.) (N0 MildeL) 2 Sheets-Sheei 2.

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\VILLIAM I-IOI'VELL, LYMAN E. CARRIER, AND JAMES MACLAGAN, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOLDER FOR LAMPS AND PARCELS FOR BICYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 612,646, dated October18, 1898.

Application filed June 3,1898. Serial No. 682,509. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM HOWELL, LYMAN E. CARRIER, and JAMESMAOLAGAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in thecounty of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Holders for Lamps and Pareels for Bicycles, whichare fully set forth in the following specification, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, and in which-Figure 1 shows our said new device in plan view in closed or attachedposition, the broken outlines indicating the motion of its parts whenbeing attached or removed to or from a bicycle. The handle-bars areshown in broken outlines. Fig. 2 shows the said device in sideelevation, one handle-bar being cut away. Fig. 3 shows a rear view ofour said device formed for a lantern-bracket for bicycles. Fig. 4 showsa modification of our device shown in the preceding three figures inwhich the parts a b b b are expanded to form a bundle-carrier.

Like letters of reference denote like parts.

The object of our invention is to produce our said mechanism by means ofa single piece of wire shaped to answer said purposes.

To attain said desirable ends, we construct our said new device insubstantially the following manner, namely: We take a piece of wire ofsuitable gage and quality and length appropriate for the object to bemade and form a central part like a or at, having the sides b b, whichare terminated by a sharp bend b Fig. 2, forming an obtuse angle nearlyequal to a right angle, from whence post, throwing the wire ends outwardand horizontal about parallel to the parts d which then at the shortcurves (1 cl extend upwardly and become parallel'and bend forward overeach arm of the handle-bar g, forming terminal hooks c c. To form abundle-carrier, the arch a is extended so as to form the line or .bar aand sharply curved .at its ends, thence into the parts b 11 theequivalents of the parts I) I), also sharply bent at b as before, theends of which are curved inward at I) and Z2, and reach by straightparts the horizontal curves I), from whence the mechanism to hold thebundle-carrier is identical in form and operation with that of the lantern-bracket.

The parts in front of the post f and the partst' i d d c c, forming theends of the wire, form the parts which hold the device rigidly in placeagainst any weight on a or a.

To apply or remove this device, the parts Z) Z) or b b are compressed,whereby the parts 0 o are thrown apart, so that the post f may enterbetween the curves 2' v1. The spring action outward will throw the partse'e' snugly against the post f, and thus lock the device firmly to itsposition, the hooks c c, with the parts (1 holding the projecting orbracket part rigidly in place.

What we claim is A carrying device for bicycles consisting of a singlepiece of wire whereof the central portion is'shaped into any suitableform and provided with overlapping parts (1 followed by opposite curvedparts 6 e which terminate in curves it" vertical to said curves e ewhereof the outer parts are straight and diverge and then turn upwardand bend forward into parallel hooks e c, the curves 6 e embracing avertical cylinder and said hooks cylindrical arms transverse to saidvertical cylinder, sub stantially as specified.

WILLIAM HOWELL. LYMAN E. CARRIER. JAMES MACLAGAN.

Witnesses:

WM. ZIMMERMAN, O. P. PAOKER,

